Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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With news coming in of Yacapaca being blocked in Lancashire (it’s subversive, you know), I thought this video was apposite. If you cannot see the video from school, chalk one up to irony and check it from home. Thanks Jeff Utecht for spotting it.
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The new blog comes with better blog stats than the old one – it’s easier to see which posts have been popular, and which not. Here are a few that seem to deserve a special mention: Why have VLEs not succeeded? Funniest Powerpoint presentation ever Publishing is Dead Google ChromeOS will kill textbooks stone dead…
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I have moved this blog to wordpress.com so that it gets hosted for us. In the process, I am experimenting with new designs to match the much greater focus on Yacapaca that it has now. The old blog had become the target of regular ddos (distributed-denial-of-service) attacks which prevented normal users accessing either the blog…
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It is now 10x easier to have your courses report results as either GCSE grades, or National Curriculum levels, with more grading schemes to follow. It took me a while to realise that the runaway popularity of our ICT Baseline scheme, (with over 1,000,000 quizzes served per year) is because it returns reliable NC levels.…
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I have been predicting for some time that a class set of computers will soon be cheaper than the equivalent pile of textbooks. Now I’ll put a date on it. Christmas 2010. Today Google announced ChromeOS, an operating system for netbooks and other small, cheap devices. They are showing it off now, but make it…
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